An experiment in portraiture with my friend Cheryl: we sat in silence for 30 minutes, during which time I photographed her without direction. Note we originally planned for an hour (and that I wasn’t supposed to move the camera at all), but could only stand the silence for :30. I got the idea from a great book called, “Train Your Gaze” which said that Avedon often photographed his subjects in silence. He was a great photographer, and was also clearly less of a nervous energy-fueled, chatterbox than I.
